Re: [Wikitech-l] Skinning tutorial

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Isarra Yos wrote: > On 11/11/15 02:06, S Page wrote: > >> I meant the on-wiki three-part skinning thing that's been >> around for a while and introduces in a nutshell as "This page is part 1 of >> a three-part tutorial". &

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

e a good idea. I typically recommend > >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Wctaiwan/Gerrit_cheatsheet> to > >> people who are confused with git. > >> > > > > +1, as someone who uses it rarely enough to /always/ have to consult the > FAQs. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skinning tutorial

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Isarra Yos replied: > On 10/11/15 21:59, S Page wrote: > >> The tutorial is pretty good IMO, the problem is it forced repetition > > > This may just be because I did it at three in the morning; it probably > doesn't need that much. I&

Re: [Wikitech-l] Skinning tutorial

better. > > -I > > ps - Yes, I may have read motherfuckingwebsite.com a few too many times > before writing that up. I, uh, sort of apologise. > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wik

Re: [Wikitech-l] documentation files in git and .{media, }wiki extension (bikeshedding!)

zielski mentioned. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual%3ACoding_conventions&type=revision&diff=1931325&oldid=1931314 [2] https://help.github.com/articles/supported-mediawiki-formats/ [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91626 [4] ht

[Wikitech-l] documentation files in git and .{media, }wiki extension (bikeshedding!)

i is shorter. Maybe there are other arguments for one extension over the other. Thanks for any thoughts! [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions#Text_documents -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list W

Re: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.25 new extension registration - PHP constants

On Oct 30, 2015 11:06, "Florian Schmidt" wrote: [Thanks for helping the developer community!] > I'm wondering, if dependencies like yours are widely used and if extending the requires section support to extensions would help to solve your problem (with that you could specify a specific version,

Re: [Wikitech-l] DISPLAYTITLE

ises to the level of an architectural change that would prompt an RFC. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Process Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikitech-l] PHP CodeSniffer is now voting on MediaWiki core patches

people, PHP CodeSniffer is > now voting on all MediaWiki core patchsets! It checks for basic code > style issues automatically -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [MediaWiki-l] An "advanced search" page for CirrusSearch?

syntax and escaping rules that the Cirrus back-end supports, but a helper that inserts the prefixes could work. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Port mw-vagrant to Raspberry Pi ( arm )

Congratulations on the container, mention it on mw.org somewhere. It seems with that you've got half the battle won. MediaWiki-vagrant's roles let you easily add features to a development wiki, but maybe instead of trying to get all MediaWiki-vagrant's vagrant and puppet machinery running in your i

Re: [Wikitech-l] Interested in working on a WikiWidget for algorithm visualization

iki ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Directory/Science,_technology,_and_engineering_WikiProjects [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/140_New_Montgomery -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question: Should wikimedia wikis such as wikipedia be updated with a user frendly desgn

gt; replace vector as we did with monobook or update vector with a new look > > that has bold colours and goes along with mediawiki code and is also > mobile > > optimised even though we have the mobilefrontend extension some users may > > not want to install instead h

Re: [Wikitech-l] Rotating pictures idea

cts/55e99d6174d6ac1d21451575, and more about > #hack4dk at http://hack4.dk/ > > > Regards, > Ole Palnatoke Andersen, Wikimedia Danmark > > -- > http://palnatoke.org * @palnatoke * +4522934588 > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

ore efficient for me. The recent DWIM ("Do what I mean") improvements while you're writing a post are a delight. Thanks Collaboration team <3 ! -- =S Page WMF Tech writer [1] > The main goals for the Flow project are: - to make the wiki discussion system **more accessible fo

[Wikitech-l] Office Hour about mediawiki.org API pages Tuesday Sept 1

.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub [4] http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Web_APIs_hub -- =S Page WMF Tech writer, and Quim Gil Engineering Community manager ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Issue with Gadget dependencies and ResourceLoader

idiom. Are there any gadgets that add an object within mediaWiki ? If we were to rewrite morebits.js from scratch, wouldn't it be better to create mediaWiki.moreBits.{quickForm, simpleWindow, ...} rather than window.MoreBits ? Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer _

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geohack tools

icles with coordinates that are nearby. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Bikeshedding a good name for "the api.php API"

iaWiki (even though > I'd > > > guess it's probably going to be implemented as an -oid). "MediaWiki web > > > APIs" may well grow to encompass the api.php action API, the REST API, > > and > > > maybe even stuff like Parsoid. >

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] [BREAKING CHANGE] Use of "document.write" no longer supported

users%29#Good_practices [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/JavaScript [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader#Debugging -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] compressed old_text

ion::compressRevisionText() and decompressRevisionText() in core/includes/Revision.php Hope this helps. I didn't know anything about this 25 minutes ago :) -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Geolocation and WikiVoyage

There's an article about getting pages nearby with action=geosearch, http://devhub.wmflabs.org/wiki/API:Showing_nearby_wiki_information [1], I welcome feedback. On Jul 21, 2015 10:40, "Sylvain Arnouts" wrote: > I know it's possible with Wikidata API to enter a position (longitude and latitude),

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data and Developer Hub protoype

t track you the way a facebook like button does. > That you don't need an api key or anyone's permission. Of course we > should also state what you do need to do (Give credit/follow license, > set a user-agent header) > Yup T317 '

Re: [Wikitech-l] Data and Developer Hub protoype

Thanks for the feedback (seriously). On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:53 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > More to the point: why not just make dev.wikimedia.org a round robin that > points to either or > ? I think i

[Wikitech-l] Data and Developer Hub protoype

page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/dev.wikimedia.org , or file Phabricator tickets in the project dev.wikimedia.org [1]. Since December 2013 Moiz Syed and others discussed creating "a thing" to expose our APIs and data to developers. When S Page moved to WMF tech writer, he wrote some

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Modernizing our content platform: Kick-off meeting on Tuesday

ice/2015/wikimedia-office.2015-06-24-21.04.log.html starting at 21:21:05 [2] e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo/Map?action=edit [3] e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Phabricator?action=edit [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_focus_2015#General_architectu

[Wikitech-l] which title to use in skin data?

improve the documentation. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103454 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_hide_the_main_page_title.3F [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Skinning -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

;facebookoverlordmode= ... Does that make our API "user-hostile"? IMO it just makes it wordy. > Those sorts of changes should be reserved for experimental or even beta > APIs. Continuing queries seems like a stable—and pervasive—part of the API. > Cheers, -- =S Page WMF

Re: [Wikitech-l] Overriding Jenkins versus make-work patches

#1 sounds right, Jenkins serves us, not vice versa. The core change's commit message should reference the two required extension changes. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Feedback requested on our search APIs

only word > level tokens (I think, maybe? I'm a bit unclear on how the regex > operator works). > Yes it's not a full reference. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Open Help Conference & Sprints

ase's Swagger-generated doc is nifty, but how do you see that relating to the conference? Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API returns empty strings for boolean fields?

for the WMF cluster or 1.26 only, you should always use formatversion=2 (with the proviso that some API modules may change). It gives you cleaner return values and defaults to utf8 instead of ascii with unicode escape sequences. More at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:JSON_version_2#Using_the_new_JSON_results_format Cheers, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Simplifying the WMF deployment cadence

Benito, Grossmeier! "He made the trains run on time" [1] > Tuesday: New branch cut, deployed to test wikis and mediawiki.org as before, I assume. [1] Or not, http://www.transportmyths.co.uk/mussolini.htm -- =S Page WMF Tech writer _

Re: [Wikitech-l] FYI: HTMLForm is now available in OOUI format

stuff. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HTMLForm [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F169381 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100401 -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] First impression with Differential

of Differential and separately from whether we make it mandatory. It seems developers have to do git config --global commit.template ~/path/to/better/git_commit.message , but we could put the file in a MediaWiki project like core Regards, -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Community project ideas

to highlight it. And "community" is an open-ended pluralistic term, like "User" or "Open". It's reasonable to want teams to be more specific, give them a little more time as we work through the reorg. I'm forming an Open Community Core Engagement team, dedicated t

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Tracking Antifeature?

e-l mailing list > > mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] API result formatting changes (being announced a little late), for developers

experimental formatversion=2015, code using ApiResult::getResultData() and not using ApiResult::transformForBC() may need updating. Brad, is it OK to use formatversion=2 in extensions running on 1.25? -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailin

Re: [Wikitech-l] API result formatting changes (being announced a little late), for developers

th API issues or code review for API > modules, please do reach out to me. > Let me know off-list how I can help update the docs. To start, I think this change description should go on the wiki. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150428-EventLogging [2] https://gerri

Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC and Outreachy results out!

Alvaro, Daniel > > Let's all welcome them into the Wikimedia family! > > Thanks, > Niharika. > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Designing a MediaWiki Skin

#x27; => array(), > 'mediawiki.ui.anchor' => array(), > 'mediawiki.ui.button' => array(), > 'mediawiki.ui.input' => array(), > 'mediawiki.ui.icon' => array(), > 'mediawiki.ui.text

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thumbnail image hinting in articles via metadata tags

;m curious how those images get pulled - if it's taking into account > infoboxes or such, or just the first image on the page, or what. > I'm writing an article on that subject. It hasn't been reviewed, but it's interesting. Your feedback is welcome. https://www.mediawiki.

Re: [Wikitech-l] odd namespace number

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/API#Should_existing_API_calls_that_interact_with_a_page_.22just_work.22_on_a_Flow_board.3F [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/API#Use_cases [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow/API -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Org changes in WMF's Platform Engineering group

A reorg that makes sense without TLA buzzword decoding \o/ (Are you sure you didn't leave out the "MediaWiki Platform Community API Core Features Development" team :) ) Best wishes and high hopes for y'all. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer __

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki-Vagrant now has support for install in Linux Containers (LXC)

ard to see how running Vagrant as an LXC in a VM on a Mac can be faster than running Vagrant as its own VM. 8-) -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing service-runner, a startup module / supervisor for node services

n just Parsoid? I'm so excitoid [6] https://github.com/foreverjs/forever [7] https://github.com/zapty/forever-service -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video Uploads to Commons

isting videoconvert tool account). -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Video Uploads to Commons

; I added a section "Online conversion tools" to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Converting_video -- =S Page WMF Tech writer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Converting debug logging to PSR-3

un on latest git or on "Download MediaWiki 1.24.1", or both? (And even for the legacy LTS releases 1.23.8 and 1.19.23.) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility#Trunk_extensions.27_compatibility_with_old_MediaWiki_versions [2] h

Re: [Wikitech-l] Brion's role change within WMF

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Tei wrote: > a open door to things that can freak us again. > ^ world's greatest job title for Brion's business card Robla wrote > Brion,let me know how I can help! Ditto. Great news indeed. -- =S Pa

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of shared hosting

nd PHP, e.g. CannyComputing <https://github.com/CannyComputing>/*frontend-mediawiki <https://github.com/CannyComputing/frontend-mediawiki>* , or you'd have separate container for each service. I can't figure out the pricing. -- =S Page WMF Tech writer __

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla-Phabricator migration (almost) completed

g some of Flow's tasks in Trello to Phabricator, using string and glue or whatever. I invite anyone else attempting project migration to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T36 and the team practices mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/team

Re: [Wikitech-l] [EE] Is simplicity is the key to success of Echo and Watchlist?

Talk:Sandbox" notification could do something similar, showing a vertical line next to the title bars of new posts. We could add a "Highlight all posts newer than this" to each post's action menu, but it feels a bit esoteric. User JS or a gadget could easily do it. Regards, --

Re: [Wikitech-l] The future of skins

Cheers, [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mantle#Templates [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/Knockoff_-_Tassembly -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Template RFC

fused :) FWIW the pressing need of several teams is a dialog component with the Agora appearance to replace homebrew and jQuery UI dialogs. As I understand it, besides VE of course Media Viewer has an OOUI dialog in its "Use this file" pop-up. -- =S Page Features engineer

Re: [Wikitech-l] Bikeshedding a good name for "the api.php API"

API for short? > But extensions also provide this API. api.php?action=echomarkread&all=true <http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=echomarkread&all=true> isn't part of core but is the same MediaWiki web API. Also see my signature below :) -- =S Page Core features team (not MediaWiki core or platform) engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Roadmap and deployment highlights - week of July 21st

IDs like Topic:Ry6o4jowf78f34gp, <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ry6o4jowf78f34gp> so Flow tries to display whatever users gave as the topic title in the page heading, notifications, recent changes, watchlists, etc. rather than the page title. Thanks for helping to localize Flow!

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating progress; Knockout Components & curly brace syntax

r (into JSON) are both Node.js programs. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mantle#Developer_features -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Front-End Standardization Chat

Maybe OOjs UI already provides that dialog, I think MultimediaViewer's share dialog uses it.) Regards, -- =S Page WMF Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

> discussion pages. You can view the diff between revisions of a post, but editing posts is somewhat rare. Generating a diff of an entire topic with new posts, updates, hide operations, etc. seems challenging. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wiki

[Wikitech-l] How to create login / signup links cleanly?

alUrl. But you can't pass this to a message because it may not start with //myserver.com and if it doesn't then it won't work in a [$1 link text] link. Thanks for any advice, -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] LiquidThreads - how do we kill it?

ds users to *want* it enabled on the talk pages they visit. -- =S Page Core Features (Flow) engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Requests with data URIs appended to proper URLs

P Referer for these requests, can we tell if it's coming from an external to CSS or CSS a mw.loader.implement() piece of JavaScript inserting the CSS? [1] < http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15481088/are-unquoted-data-uris-valid-in-css > -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating decision soon?

model-view updates. Hope this helps. No slight intended to any others working on GW&MW MW KO code :) [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mantle#Templates [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Architecture/Templating -- =S Page WikiMedia Features engineer _

Re: [Wikitech-l] VisualEditor template editing interface

template in a new tab just to remind me of its parameters. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Abandoning -1 code reviews automatically?

ial change because they see how it can be improved further, but the answer is to respond to their comment with "I've filed bug N for that suggestion", and invite them to remove the -1. -- =S Page Features engineer ___ Wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] Free fonts and Windows users

ioning non-free fonts? People disagree. But I'm saddened by the implicit and overt hostility towards the art of design here ("its debatable whether this actually represents "progress"", "it seems like things have shifte

Re: [Wikitech-l] HTML templating systems & MediaWiki - is this summary right?

www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library#Existing_implementations_in_MediaWiki_extensions [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Epic_Front-End#Templating [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer -- =S Page Features engineer on the Flow team ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] MediaWiki-Vagrant can run MediaWiki under HHVM!

valent) in Special:Version. > HHVMappears as '5.4.999-hiphop (srv)' > My Special:Version says "PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.9 (fpm-fcgi)" :-( I've tried killing php5-fpm, restarting apache2, ` sudo /etc/init.d/hhvm start` etc. More details in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia mobile app rewrite early test builds available

for us", with some app manifest munging might the Firefox app work on them too? At what point does a Web app become a modern HTML5 web site, or is it vice versa? :) [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI#APIs -- =S Page Features engineer _

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Design] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

ans L" is the files n019003l.{afm,pfb,pfm} in http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/all/gsfonts/download , the command to extract one file is $ dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/gsfonts_blahblah.deb | tar xOf - ./usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n019003l.pfb > /t

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

c a". There's no reason for our font stack to do it unless some freely-licensed font looks better than the non-free font; also it will work against the brave and few who follow steps like http://www.binarytides.com/gorgeous-looking-fonts-ubuntu-linux/ to adjust the appearance of those well-

Re: [Wikitech-l] Should MediaWiki CSS prefer non-free fonts?

fers Nimbus Sans L even for 'sans serif'; it could be my setup, or https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=242046 I would love to know what Android tablets do. [*] The local improvement to fonts on those forms made them inconsistent with the rest of MediaWiki, so their fon

Re: [Wikitech-l] Which MariaDB engine does Wikimedia use?

perations%2Fpuppet.git/18f719ef3d297878e198a864f5bb31dd9cb047af/manifests%2Frole%2Fcoredb.pp > -- =S Page WMF Features engineer ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] ContentHandler hook deprecations

by mentioning it in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug#PHP_errors :) -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wmfall] Announcement: C. Scott Ananian joins Wikimedia as Senior Features Engineer

Nell + OLPC/Litl nth-gen + (Wikipedia + WikiBooks) + WP:Zero = the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion for us thetes! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age ) Welcome C. Scott and thanks for all your past, present, and future contributions. -- =S Page sof

Re: [Wikitech-l] Proposal regarding a distinct Extension infobox status color for status "unmaintained"

s-unmaintained to Gadget-site.css and made it #8B4513 (SaddleBrown ). Whatever works. BTW the template puts unmaintained extensions in Category:Not_LTS_ready . Cheers, -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Semantic MediaWiki at the Danish National Library

I like Josef Assad's explanation of SMW in place of the "big load of do-not-care" on its Wikipedia page : Semantic Mediawiki allows you to attach properties to wiki pages. And to > query the pages based on these properties. > It doesn't quite capture the elephant (e.g. you add these properties

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki errors on Wikimedia wikis

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:06 PM, S Page wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Brian Wolff wrote: > >> just the exception names w/o backtrace should be safe (?)) >> > > > [20-Jun-2013 18:54:45] Fatal error: Call to a member function getCode() on > a non-object

Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki errors on Wikimedia wikis

e with access to the fluorine logs machine. For those that have access, < https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code#Test_and_monitor_your_live_code> and <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logs> have advice about monitoring logs and g

Re: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the Wikimedia technical search tool

ttps://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_data talks about rich snippets available to custom search (I've never tried it). [1] like the essential "jump to Wikipedia page" 'w' bookmarklet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s .

[Wikitech-l] Search documentation

(no longer the default) but I don't know the details on the above. -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Doxygen tags - a proposal

Perhaps Ori is pointing out that doxygen (and jsduck) require needless verbiage. The tools aren't smart enough to infer obvious information from source on their own (or maybe they are but you're not sure and you see other comments using these symbols so you copy and paste), so you wind up repeating

Re: [Wikitech-l] migrating hooks doc to doxygen?

g new hook documentation. But if the doc is in the PHP near the wfRunHooks call it's more likely people will update it when making changes. Now that we have mw.hook() in JavaScript we have a second universe of hooks to think about :) -- =S

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review lets you configure 'origin' as the gerrit remote

anches tracking the remote master on gerrit: MyProjRepo% git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master master MyProjRepo% git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master my_new_feature etc. -- =S Page ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Just noticed GitBlit

t}}that template add a lot of verbiage to Extension pages, and should just output a link to a git.wikimedia.org/summary/ URL and a link to "Help downloading an extension". But I'm not familiar with its history. -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] Quo Vadis, Vagrant

gt; config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb| > vb.gui = true > end > end -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Git for idiots

git push (I never use it, I use git review with gerrit). A big problem with the documents is inconsistent setup. They don't even agree whether the remote should be called origin, gerrit, or review, because the experts who add to them have diff

Re: [Wikitech-l] Coding style: Language construct spacing

/gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62753 > > > -- Krinkle > > [1] Or whatever the reason is the author originally wrote it like > this. Perhaps PHP was different back then, or perhaps there was a > different coding style. > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Who uses MobileFrontend?

-- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) > > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Testing and monitoring deployed code

to_deploy_code#Test_and_monitor_your_live_code> I think we can express best practices better than "stay on IRC in case people yell 'Fire!'" (though that's a good start :) Cheers, -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments

Re: [Wikitech-l] Clicktracking being phased out

-me because it allows you > to check who use the extension: > http://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:Click_Tracking Very useful, thanks. -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikitech-l] New git-review version revives year-old bug

uot;no" to abort, run "git > fetch gerrit", then rerun git-review. This will ensure git-review has > an up-to-date view of the remote master. > > Roan > > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wi

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit actively discourages discussion

as https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46792 -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Mediawiki-api] Provisional API extension for CAPTCHA on action=createaccount

nal and could ask the captcha to addCaptchaAPI() to the result, then we wouldn't need the new APICreateAccountBeforeCreate hook. It would be nice if captcha was always checked on its own hook instead of sharing a hook with other extensions. That would let a future validation API run the username past Ti

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deployment Highlights - 2013-03-15 (NOW WITH LIGTNING DEPLOYS!)

Greg. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 40 million links to Wikipedia

person or other entity" Wikidata removes all doubt, http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164757 ! I assume that other knowledge projects have noticed these entities, and that Q numbers are becoming a lingua franca. I'm reserving Q42666789 for my talented sure-to-be famous offspring. :-) Google clearly

Re: [Wikitech-l] Corporate needs are different (RE: How can we help Corporations use MW?)

n Resources meeting buttonlabel=Create a new page for a Human Resources meeting default=Human Resources/Meetings/{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}} width=40 bgcolor=#f0f0ff [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Search_box and similar. -- =S Page software engineer o

Re: [Wikitech-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

e it is deployed everywhere. I > cant wait for the English community to start using it :-] Yes, so many facts! -- =S Page software engineer on E3 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] varying ResourceLoader module dependencies

t loaded than what is loading > your module. > > If you only want to load the module for certain configurations, that sounds > like a job for $wgExtensionFunctions > -bawolff > On 2013-01-27 8:58 PM, "S Page" wrote: > >> How can an extension have a soft requireme

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